Under the Cold Bright Lights

The gripping new standalone mystery from one of Australia’s most celebrated crime writers, longlisted for the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime NovelThe young detectives call Alan Auhl a retread, but that doesn’t faze him. He does things his own way-and gets results.He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he’s still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some years ago.He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick-his daughters still convinced he was murdered, the coroner not so sure. Or the skeleton that’s just been found under a concrete slab. Or the doctor who killed two wives and a girlfriend, and left no evidence at all.Auhl will stick with these cases until justice is done. One way or another.

Garry Disher has published fifty titles-fiction, children’s books, anthologies, textbooks, the Wyatt thrillers and the Peninsula Crimes series. His previous standalone novel, Bitter Wash Road, won the German Crime Prize in 2016.